VEGAS TRIP!!!

Quote: Nareed

But why not take a cab from Circus Circus to Slots a Fun? Because we're not lazy and wasteful. Unless you're over 80 and/or hooked to an oxygen tank, there's no reason not to walk a bit.

I know that's a joke, but that would be a pretty funny cab ride. Reminds me of the time my drunk brother-in-law got in a cab and asked to go to the train station, and the cabbie just pointed across the street.

Anyway, this walk/cab argument is funny. Obviously it makes more sense to walk/monorail the strip then cab, because of the traffic. And I walk all the time, so walking 1.5 miles across a highway is not a big deal in terms of distance, but it just seems like if you're on vacation in a place you've never been, just take the cab. Paris to Rio was like $15 with tip max.

Quote: SOOPOO

IA- it sounds like this is your first trip to Vegas. Enjoy! I would go downtown at least once to experience the difference. I love going to the Rio for table games because their waitresses are 'bevertainers'. My last trip there they were all in perfect shape and appropriately clothed to entice me to need more drinks as often as possible. Harrah's, although stingy on paytables (apparently, i don't play machines) is liberal with room offers. My guess is if your are a $1 to $5 machine player you will get free rooms at their properties. If you just want the best machines it seems clear from the AP's here that Palms, right across the street from Rio, is the place to be. Remember, there are 24 hours in a day. I agree with mkl that the possibly 1 hour per day that you might spend walking is good, not bad. I think by now you should have a good idea of what's available...... Good luck...

Well, it will be my first VACATION trip to Vegas! I have been there twice in the past 5 years (2007 & 2008) for conferences, so I wasn't able to gamble or sight-see very much. Conferences in vegas are like going into a bar that has all hot chicks, but they all are taken.....haha. Anyway, I used to be a table games player back then, but I've now transitions into more of a slot and VP player due to inconsistent ratings. I think I'm going to try out the downtown area for the table games, and go to the palms for the VP. I'll still to the strip for the basic $1 slot machines, because it's really all luck anyway if you hit a jackpot. I never thought this thread would turn into "The Biggest Loser" with all of the walking miles talk!

Quote: FinsRule

I know that's a joke, but that would be a pretty funny cab ride. Reminds me of the time my drunk brother-in-law got in a cab and asked to go to the train station, and the cabbie just pointed across the street.

When I went on a business trip to Jalapa a few years ago, I paid for a cab ride across the street! Thing is you pay for the cab at a counter at the bus station and then take it. I did give the address at the counter, and the attendant didn't tell me it was across the street. If I'd known, I'd have walked, even though it was 3:30 am.

Oh, well. At least I got it reimbursed :)

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Anyway, this walk/cab argument is funny. Obviously it makes more sense to walk/monorail the strip then cab, because of the traffic. And I walk all the time, so walking 1.5 miles across a highway is not a big deal in terms of distance, but it just seems like if you're on vacation in a place you've never been, just take the cab. Paris to Rio was like $15 with tip max.

I prefer the complimentary shuttle to the Rio. You may wait a while for it, but it's free.

I tried the monorail on my first trip. It was good enough for most, but not all, the Strip. The bad thing is that the stations are very far away from the casinos. At the MGM it was a really long walk. This robs you of any appetite for more walking, say to the next hotel and back.

The best station is the Hilton's which is right at the casino.

We don't go to Vegas when it's 110 degrees. We go to Vegas to get away from the winter... the latest we've been there is mid-April, when the daytime temperature seems to be about 80 -- great walking weather.

I go to Vegas for the aggregate of everything it has to offer, not to just gamble. That offering, to me, includes the architecture, free tourist attractions, and sights.

I've got three casinos down the road from where I live, and I've got two very large casinos 40 minutes from where I work, so if I want to just gamble, I'll go there.

I've never been pickpocketed. We usually pass by the 60 year old with ingrown toenails. We have a blast.

I think you'll find there's a correlation between posting frequency and the ability to walk the strip.

The more frequent posters appear to have a more cynical attitude about walking the strip.

Please note that I'm not implying that they are some how fat, out of shape, and or lazy. As a matter of fact, I don't know of any scientific studies that hint at a correlation between obesity and excessive compulsive time spent on the internet fo r ums or wat chi nG TV... O h da b nnnnnabbbbbitttttttttt i 'v E go ne aN d gO tteN cooK ie cruMb s
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Well, just to comment on a few of the various topics in this thread:

I do like staying at the Rio. Harrah's/Caesars offers me either cheap or free accommodations there, and I am a low roller. In December, my wife and I had five nights free, Mon afternoon to Sat AM. The rooms are huge compared to what I have been able to acquire elsewhere at reasonable prices. I play the crap table at the Rio late in the evening when my wife no longer wants to be out. She may play the slots for a while or go up to the room. Otherwise, I almost never play there.

We also go over to the Gold Coast occasionally when staying at the Rio. Lower table minimums, and the games are at least as good. We have not really explored their restaurants; we have eaten at the TGIFriday's a couple of time when we just want standard fare, and some years ago we ate at the restaurant that occupied that same space, before the conversion to the franchise.

Starting our second visit to the city, we have always rented a car in Las Vegas, so getting to the Rio is not an issue, and we have never used any of the public transit system. We used cabs on that very first visit, but the lines at times are outrageously long -- long lines of cabs waiting to pick up passengers and long lines of passengers waiting to get into cabs. It's a lot more convenient, in my view, to just get into your own (rented) vehicle.

When going to the strip, we drive to a convenient casino hotel in the area we want to visit and walk to any of the nearby properties that interest us. I am amused by some of the folly about short cab rides -- can you imagine taking a cab from Paris to Bally's? How about from the Bellagio to the Cosmopolitan? Tropicana to MGM Grand? TI to Mirage? Now if we have been at MGM and want to visit Caesars or Wynn or something, of course we drive to another parking lot, and I would take a cab if I didn't have a car myself. But not to the place next door. We have indeed done the round-trip walk from Mandalay Bay to Treasure Island, but I won't be doing that again. And I've never taken the walk across the interstate; never had the need or felt the urge.

It's funny how I can remember this post by DJTeddyBear Walking Map from April of 2010. The map is about 2/3 down the page.

But, I have a hard time remembering basic blackjack while using Blackjack Mentor!!!

Hope this helps you IA. It gives a nice overview of the walk from the Strip to the Rio(Harrah's)

Of course, walking from Paris to Palms is something like five times as far as from the back door at Caesars to the back door at Rio (the short route indicated on DJTeddyBear's map).

Quote: JerryLogan

"Takes me 10" meant jogging. I'm not a gimp, I'm not an old man, and I'm definitely not a pile of blubber.

Well they were talking about walking, and if you fancy jogging between Casinos in Vegas, go ahead. I'll not stop you. Sounds like someone wants to change and clarify what they were talking about in light of new evidence. And I know you hate doing that.

I still maintain that you couldn't get, on foot, jogging or walking from the door of Paris to the Door of the Palms in 10 minutes. During the day.

I am sure you could jog 1.5 miles in 10 minutes, certainly not arguing that.

Quote: ten2win

It's funny how I can remember this post by DJTeddyBear Walking Map from April of 2010. The map is about 2/3 down the page.

Ya couldda just re-linked the image.

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Since making that, GoogleMaps has a new tool to measure distances.

The path highlighted here is .45 miles
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This path is .69 miles.
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This path is 1.35 miles.
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Quote: DJTeddyBear

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The path highlighted here is .45 miles
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This path is 1.35 miles.

Looks as if my factor of five estimate really should have been three. Ooops!

Quote: Doc

Looks as if my factor of five estimate really should have been three. Ooops!

FYI: My point was not to prove you wrong. In fact, I didn't even realize that until you posted this.

My points were:

A) It's not a prohibitively long walk - although I wouldn't suggest it in the afternoon in summer.

B) Google has a new measurement tool.

I couldn't run, walk, or even get a ride through it now. I've got the flu, and I had to miss my planned vp training session with RS Friday night. I did watch both games though and haven't read any of the threads until just now. I can't believe they're still going on and on about the same things.

Quote: DJTeddyBear

Quote: Doc

Looks as if my factor of five estimate really should have been three. Ooops!

FYI: My point was not to prove you wrong. In fact, I didn't even realize that until you posted this. ...

I understood you were not shooting me down for the fun of it. I was just taking the almost-unheard-of-in-this-forum step of openly acknowledging that I had been wrong.

(Sudden flashback to college class where the professor who had been asked whether he made a mistake in a problem on the board replied, "Well, I could have made a mistake -- it happened once before back in '57 when I thought I was in error but wasn't."

Unfortunately, in this case I was.)

I'll have to try the measurement tool sometime. I like the lat-long cursor tool.

Quote: mkl654321

Possibly the best parlay is to stay and eat at the Gold Coast, and to walk across the street to gamble at the Palms. The GC is pretty good for table games. Don't bother with the Rio, it's the most Harrahsized of Harrah's properties. Overpriced restaurants, horrible gambling, and a general rip-off-the-sucker attitude; it's a place meant to fleece those who are either too ignorant or too rich to care about things like "house advantage".

+1 for that. But it's not for everybody. It's more for the jaded veterans that have done the strip and don't really care about it anymore.

Quote: JerryLogan

"Takes me 10" meant jogging. I'm not a gimp, I'm not an old man, and I'm definitely not a pile of blubber.

Of course you may be an old, fat gimp. So you hate the Palms but can't wait to get there - you have to jog it? Too cheap to cab it? Didn't you later mention the smell of those idiots who walk the strip in the summer? I hope you only jog there in cooler weather.
I'll say this - you are good for a laugh.

Quote: dm

Of course you may be an old, fat gimp. So you hate the Palms but can't wait to get there - you have to jog it? Too cheap to cab it? Didn't you later mention the smell of those idiots who walk the strip in the summer? I hope you only jog there in cooler weather.
I'll say this - you are good for a laugh.

And I'll say this: you're gullible and you can't read. I don't walk anywhere in LV and I certainly wouldn't run around like some nerd trying to take weight off in front of others. But I can certainly cover 1.35 miles in 10 minutes.

Smarten up.

Quote: JerryLogan

And I'll say this: you're gullible and you can't read. I don't walk anywhere in LV and I certainly wouldn't run around like some nerd trying to take weight off in front of others. But I can certainly cover 1.35 miles in 10 minutes.

Smarten up.

For a man who never walks anywhere in the city, you sure have a lot of confidence in how fast you can walk around LV. We were talking about walking between two casinos in Vegas, not jogging on a flat track. Smarter up your own comprehension... we'll never put it the test, but you can't get between those two locations, on foot in ten minutes, during the day.

Quote: thecesspit

For a man who never walks anywhere in the city, you sure have a lot of confidence in how fast you can walk around LV. We were talking about walking between two casinos in Vegas, not jogging on a flat track. Smarter up your own comprehension... we'll never put it the test, but you can't get between those two locations, on foot in ten minutes, during the day.

Opinions vary. I'm a runner and I know the route. Depends on the time of day you do it in, but I have no doubt I could do it any time but on New Year's Eve.

I'm sure people with pot bellies and beer guts do not want to hear about it.

Quote: JerryLogan

I'm sure people with pot bellies and beer guts do not want to hear about it.

I think youre wrong Jerry. I for one just dont care about it.

I'm sorry to the original poster for the thread hi-jack, but I was hoping we could've tempted JL into a bet on running between two casinos. I don't think it was a lock that he couldn't do it, but figured it'd be a relatively tough bet from my own knowledge; and that it'd have amused to have the non-Vegas walker running around to collect a bet... after all he does claim to be fitter than us all...

Then again, I don't have the funds to put up enough to make it really tempting for him anyways. Ach well... I thought a nice Paris/Palms run and a group IQ test would make for a great set of events at your WoVCon. :)

The Palms isn't on the strip. Why would anyone want to try and walk from there to Paris?

I have no idea -why-, except there was talk about walking there to save the taxi fare, and then a discussion of how long it'd take... then Jerry said it'd only take 10 minutes.

But later clarified only if he ran.

The right way, for me at least, is walk to Bill's, and grab the Gold Coast shuttle to the Gold Coast, and then walk across the road. Cost a $1 tip to the driver. I believe there is Harrah's/Rio shuttle as well you could do much the same journey.

Will take longer than 10 minutes unless you get lucky with the shuttle. But I'm never that much in a hurry, and don't mind taking my time and seeing the sights and the people when I'm in Vegas... half the experience is the atmosphere, I'm never that desperate to get somewhere to gamble... and if I'm late for something, I'll spring for the Sherbet Dab (*) for a short ride too.

(* More Cockney Rhyming Slang)

Quote: thecesspit

The right way, for me at least, is walk to Bill's, and grab the Gold Coast shuttle to the Gold Coast, and then walk across the road. Cost a $1 tip to the driver. I believe there is Harrah's/Rio shuttle as well you could do much the same journey.

There are shuttle to the Rio departing from Harrah's and Bally's. The wait is around 20 minutes. People with diamond and 7 stars cards get preference regardless of their place in line. You can also take the bus on Flamingo Rd., but I've no idea where the stops are.

I think there's a Palms shuttle, too, but I don't recall where.